100 Bible Verses About Submission
Bible verses about Submission
Understanding submission through scripture reveals a path to profound spiritual growth and harmonious relationships. It's not about forced obedience, but rather a voluntary yielding rooted in love, respect, and a recognition of God's divine order. Exploring these verses invites us to embrace humility, prioritize the needs of others, and trust in God's wisdom. Through submission, we align ourselves with His will, fostering unity within families, communities, and the church. This journey of understanding unlocks deeper intimacy with Christ and empowers us to live lives that reflect His servant heart.
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Psalms 40:6 (KJV)
Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
Submission: Bible Verses on Respect & Obedience
And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:
And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the Lord until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.
Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king’s son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?
And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the Lord:
And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before the Lord: and the bullock shall be killed before the Lord.
And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward with Achish.
Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
And Moses said unto the Lord, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, The Lord of hosts is the God over Israel: and let the house of thy servant David be established before thee.
And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth.
And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish;
Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
So David received of her hand that which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.
For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until every thing was finished that the Lord commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over.
Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:
And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.
All the males among the priests shall eat thereof: it is most holy.
Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.
And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.
And the priest of his sons that is anointed in his stead shall offer it: it is a statute for ever unto the Lord; it shall be wholly burnt.
Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants.
But ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord: one bullock, one ram, seven lambs of the first year without blemish:
But the Lord is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.
And when Moses heard that, he was content.
And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer unto the Lord.
The tabernacle of the congregation, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy seat that is thereupon, and all the furniture of the tabernacle,
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
For the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon.
And this is the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
And the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,
He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.
What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.
His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him.
And Moses went up unto God, and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:
Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash withal: and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein.
And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the Lord.
For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the Lord commanded, saying,
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.
On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan, offered:
And when David’s young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.
Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;
And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the Lord commanded me.
And the fat of the sin offering shall he burn upon the altar.
And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.
And he shall offer his offering unto the Lord, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings,
Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Thou shalt part it in pieces, and pour oil thereon: it is a meat offering.
And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation for an heave offering unto the Lord, and it shall be the priest’s that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings.
And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the Lord had given him in commandment unto them;
And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan–aram;
Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded.
He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.
And thou shalt bring the Levites before the Lord: and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites:
Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
And the Lord spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came out.
And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle it round about upon the altar.
And it came to pass, that, when Abraham’s servant heard their words, he worshipped the Lord, bowing himself to the earth.
And he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it was foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof.
Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, thine are all that pertained unto Mephibosheth. And Ziba said, I humbly beseech thee that I may find grace in thy sight, my lord, O king.
Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.
Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.
And the Lord did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.
And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the Lord thy God.
And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.
Then came near the heads of the fathers of the Levites unto Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and unto the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel;
And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the Lord, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose.
One spoon of gold of ten shekels, full of incense:
I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:
So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.
And he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. And the people departed.
And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.
His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel.
And the Lord said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria:
Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord’s ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh.
Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord God.
And Abraham planted a grove in Beer–sheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God.
When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:
And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest’s office: Take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish,
Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?
So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the Lord: and the angel did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.
And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the Lord our God.
What man is he that feareth the Lord? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.
And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so.
And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.
And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called unto me. And I answered, Here am I.
The Bible's teachings on submission, as explored in these verses, reveal a multifaceted concept extending beyond simple obedience. It encompasses humility, respect, and a recognition of divinely ordained order within various relationships - marriage, family, government, and the Church. While often misinterpreted, true submission is not about oppression or silencing oneself, but rather about choosing to place the needs of others and the will of God above personal desires, fostering unity and harmony. Reflecting on these scriptures invites us to examine our own attitudes and actions, ensuring that our understanding and practice of submission are rooted in love, mutual respect, and a desire to honor God in all aspects of our lives. Applying these principles requires discernment and wisdom, always prioritizing justice, compassion, and the unwavering pursuit of truth found in Christ.